Introduction to assessment for healthcare professions education
April 28 @ 09:00 - May 1 @ 17:00
1000€Date: April 28 – May 1, 2020
Location: Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Course leaders: Prof. dr. Cees van der Vleuten, Dr. Carlos F. Collares & Prof. Adrian Freeman
Target group: Beginners and intermediate level
Objectives:
The objective of this training is to provide a comprehensive panorama of theoretical and practical aspects of assessment in healthcare professions education for teachers who have a beginner or intermediate level of knowledge and experience in the field.
The course focuses on both quantitative and qualitative approaches to assessment as it was designed to cover the entire Miller’s pyramid model of competence, from cognitive assessment (e.g. progress testing), passing through the assessment of skills (e.g. OSCEs), up to the behavioral and attitudinal aspects targeted in workplace-based assessment. To wrap up, the course also explains how programmatic assessment can be used as a strategy to maximize the impact of assessment on learning.
Topics that will be covered during this training:
| Validity | Reliability | |
| Programmatic assessment | Blueprinting | |
| Item writing | Standard setting | |
| Angoff | Progress Testing | |
| OSCEs | Rating scales | |
| Generalizability | Item response theory | |
| Rasch model | Workplace-based assessment | |
| Mini-Cex | Portfolio assessment | |
Price: € 1000,-, including four days training by experts, coffee/tea/drinks during the day, lunch, and a dinner during one of the evenings.
Summary of the course programme (four-day programme to be confirmed):
Read here a few testimonials from participants of this training in 2018